Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches

From: Kevin Heflin <kheflin(at)shreve(dot)net>
To: "PGSQL-General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches
Date: 1999-01-13 07:52:31
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.02.9901130149570.21851-100000@mercury.shreve.net
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kevin Heflin wrote:
> Currently I have a select statement like so:
>
> select * from photos where keywords LIKE '%$cat_name%'
>
> The above select statement works, except that it is case sensitive.
> Is there a way to do this that is not case sensitive?

Sorry for the lame question, I found a suggestion on some SQL mailing list
archive which suggested using:

SELECT * from photos were lower(keywords) LIKE lower('%$cat_name%'

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